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Democratic strategist and consultant. Senior Advisor - @JulianCastro , @BoldProgressive , @LoseCruzPAC . Obama alum.

Joined November 2010
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How it started: How it’s going:
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South Korea has tested 200,000 people for coronavirus, prioritizing the most vulnerable people. The CDC only tested 77 people this week. Yet, the Utah Jazz was able to test all 58 players in a matter of hours.
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“Pay off your own debt!” says a generation of pundits that went to school when classes were $100 and the minimum wage could finance a mortgage on a 2-bedroom home.
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Never would have thought a Tik Tok on qualified immunity would have 575K views
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“I favor ending birthright citizenship,” said man born in the U.S. to two noncitizens, making him a birthright citizen.
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You signed a bill last year eliminating the requirement for Texas schools to teach about MLK’s “I have a dream” speech.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s vision of liberty & opportunity for all inspired our nation. Today, we honor his life & legacy. The beacon of hope he lit burns brightly in Texas.
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You signed a bill this year that eliminated requirements for schools to teach about Martin Luther King Jr.
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Here’s how the two nominees spent their Memorial Day weekend
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It costs approximately $1,200 for someone to evacuate a massive hurricane like Ian. So with the $12 million in taxpayer funds Gov. DeSantis spent exploiting refugees, he could have covered those costs for 10,000 Floridians.
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If you’re watching @AOC ’s IG Live, it’s very clear that many members of Congress were minutes away from being killed on Jan 6th—and Capitol Police was unprepared in every way. But @tedcruz thinks we should “move on.”
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Pretty satisfying watching @jonstewart put @JackPosobiec in his place. “You’re a fucking troll.”
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It appears in the middle of the worst energy crisis in the history of Texas, @tedcruz is on his way to Cancun with his family.
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All five major cities in Texas are now instituting mask mandates in schools, in open defiance of Governor Abbott. Houston, Austin, and Fort Worth are ignoring his ban, as well as San Antonio and Dallas, who are also suing him. If he won’t keep kids safe, local leaders will.
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The violence in Portland stopped the day federal officers left town. Stop saying the protestors are the violent ones.
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So it turns out the Utah Jazz didn’t buy these tests privately. Instead, the state of Oklahoma used 60% of their daily test capacity (100 tests) on testing players and staff from an NBA team.
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South Korea has tested 200,000 people for coronavirus, prioritizing the most vulnerable people. The CDC only tested 77 people this week. Yet, the Utah Jazz was able to test all 58 players in a matter of hours.
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Border patrol is mounted on horseback rounding up Haitian refugees with whips. This is unfathomable cruelty towards people fleeing disaster and political ruin. The administration must stop this.
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Governor Greg Abbott says Texas will spend $250,000,000 on a “down payment” for a state border wall. He’s also asking for donations of land and cash. The state has spent $0 to help Texans pay the $18B surge in utility bills.
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Reminder: while Kyrsten Sinema preaches about civility and finding common ground, she hasn't held a townhall for her constituents in three years.
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Here’s Ted Cruz with the leader of the Proud Boys.
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Fox News ran 1,098 primetime segments on Benghazi from the day of the attack until the committee hearings, which they carried live for more than 7 hours. Today they announced they won’t cover the hearings on the January 6th insurrection.
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In 2019, Greg Abbott signed a law that required an ID check to buy: -NyQuil -Robitussin -Mucinex -Vicks -Dimetapp -Delsym -Theraflu But in Texas you can buy unlimited AR-15s and ammunition the minute you turn 18.
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The San Antonio sheriff is launching a criminal probe into DeSantis’s kidnapping operation: “What infuriates me most in this case is that we have 48 people who are already on hard times, they are here legally…and I believe they were preyed upon.”
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For the Fox News viewers, the Director of the FBI—who approved the raid on Trump’s home—was appointed by him five years ago this week.
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FUN FACT: @tedcruz ’s kids go to a $30K/year private school where students are REQUIRED to wear masks and the school does contact tracing. Will he pull his kids out of this oppressive establishment?
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Greg Abbott, just two months ago: "I can guarantee the lights will stay on.” Greg Abbott today, as Texas freezes: “No one can guarantee there won’t be power outages.”
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First, Greg Abbott received a third booster dose of the vaccine, something not yet available to the public. Now he’s receiving monoclonal antibody treatment, something the FDA has only authorized for those with “high risk for progression to severe COVID-19.” Must be nice.
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Here’s @tedcruz fist-bumping fellow Republicans after blocking a bill to help veterans exposed to toxic burn pits.
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Sens. Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski ALL supported a carve-out to the filibuster to lift the debt ceiling just six months ago. They could support a carve-out to codify Roe today if they wanted.
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Call me crazy, but I feel like “Republicans say interracial marriage shouldn’t be a federal right” is a culture war Democrats can win.
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LOL. Last night Kid Rock was pictured drinking a Bud Light at a concert after he led an effort to cancel the company. It wasn’t long ago he shot up a case of Bud Light with an AR-15.
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Rich men North of Richmond singer says “it’s aggravating seeing people on conservative news try to identify with me like I’m one of them.” He says it’s funny they used it in the GOP debate because “I wrote that song about them.”
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Here’s a fun piece of electability trivia. Elizabeth Warren is the only candidate to defeat an incumbent republican in 30 years. The republican she beat was Scott Brown. Scott Brown was bankrolled by...Michael Bloomberg.
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A 16-year-old transgender boy named Antonio Voe tried to kill himself the same day Greg Abbott ordered that parents of trans kids be investigated for child abuse. He was admitted—but when hospital staff learned he had hormone therapy, they were forced to turn his family in.
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Here’s Greg Abbott last year bragging about how “no license or training is needed” to carry a gun in Texas. Republicans in TX passed an open-carry firearm bill LAST YEAR.
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An important stat, in total viewership: Hillary at Benghazi hearing: 4M viewers Night one of 1/6 hearing: 20M viewers
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Two mass-shootings in six days. Enough with this bullshit. Nuke the filibuster, pass gun reform.
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The newest member of Twitter’s board of directors once went on Twitter and called a U.S. Senator “Senator Karen” because she suggested he—the richest man in the world—should pay income taxes. He paid $0 in income taxes last year.
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No. They ruled that a public school employee had the right to coercively lead a group of students in prayer on taxpayer property, despite protestations from students.
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Breaking News: The Supreme Court ruled that a high school football coach had a constitutional right to pray at the 50-yard line after his team’s games. The vote was 6 to 3, with the court’s three liberal members in dissent.
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San Antonio reported more mail in ballots received today (41,000) than were received the entire 2016 general election (38,000).
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Mike Bloomberg could have funded the ENTIRE Flint water crisis recovery (and still had $100M to spare) with his total campaign investment to date
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A beautiful sight: moving boxes arrive at the White House. (Via @erinscottphoto )
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The 3 centrist Democrats who just tanked the party’s signature drug pricing bill have received nearly $2 million in pharma contributions.
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It would be such a baller move if Kamala Harris canceled student loan debt while Biden is getting his colonoscopy. Just saying.
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Joe Manchin is running around the halls of the Senate telling reporters “we’re not going to obstruct people from voting.” Meanwhile 50% of mail-in ballot applications are being rejected in Texas.
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Dozens of homeless people sleeping in taped boxes on a concrete parking lot beneath $100M empty Las Vegas hotels.
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This shouldn’t get lost: organizers in Arizona delivered 75% of the Latino vote to Biden (74% Yuma, 78% Maricopa, 81% Pima). Florida is not the whole narrative here.
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Holy shit. This is big. The former chief of Texas’s power grid testified today that Greg Abbott *instructed* officials to charge the maximum amount for power during the winter storm. Texans still owe $3.4 billion.
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Half a million Texans woke up without power this morning. A reminder that none of the 666 bills signed by the governor this year invest money in transforming the power grid.
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Holy shit. Texas republicans introduced a bill to give huge tax cuts to *straight* couples having children—with up to 100% cut in property taxes for TEN kids. The bill’s author said “Get married, stay married, and be fruitful and multiply.” This is handmaid’s tale shit.
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The fact that Kyrsten Sinema hasn’t held a single public event in the two years since taking office hasn’t received enough attention.
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Trump supporters sent pipe bombs to prominent Democrats. They ran down marchers in Charlottesville. They killed BLM protestors in Wisconsin. They murdered 23 people in El Paso. Now they’ve plotted to kidnap sitting governors. Which party has a law and order problem?
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I’m a bit late, but it’s pretty incredible that zero percent of Warren supporters said they wouldn’t support the nominee if it wasn’t her. It’s a testament to the unifying nature of her candidacy.
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Don’t try to come at Elizabeth Warren on taxing the wealthy
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Pretty impressive to watch @TimRyan take a clearly stacked Fox audience from boo’s after he brought up January 6th—to loud applause after not backing down at all. Not an easy thing to do. (via @atrupar )
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Steve King got voted out of office during a national Black Lives Matter protest. Poetry.
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You signed a bill eliminating the requirement for Texas schools to teach MLK Jr’s “I have a dream” speech.
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Today, we honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King's vision of liberty and opportunity lit a beacon of hope that changed a nation. His light still burns brightly today.
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On Bloomberg’s apology for redlining comments, @JulianCastro says “Does your credit card company take an apology? Does equifax or credit rating agencies? Businesspeople who run for office think an apology is everything. I think voters should hold him accountable for his record.”
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Gas prices have fallen 11 cents in a month, and are continuing to fall sharply. USPS is reporting a 95% on-time delivery rate, the best year-over-year improvement they’ve seen. We went from a hair-on-fire media freak out to complete radio silence.
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Let’s assume Trump didn’t read the intelligence reports.... That means he learned about it on Friday, and still played 36 holes of golf on Saturday and Sunday.
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Democrats should just end the filibuster and then say Fred Flinstone is a racist and see what Fox News covers. The Republican party is only equipped to fight culture wars at this point.
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Fetterman’s victory should redefine the beltway assumptions on “electability.” A burly, tattooed progressive who suffered a stroke on Friday just defeated a clean-cut, veteran, centrist two-term Congressman.
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Fun fact: Ted Cruz and his entire family are vaccinated. 100% of the teachers at his kids’ private school are vaccinated. And students are required to submit their vaccination status to the school.
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John Fetterman asks Silicon Valley Bank exec if they should have work requirements: “Republicans want a work requirement for SNAP, for hungry families…Shouldn’t you have a working requirement after we bail out your bank?”
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Woah. Retiring GOP Texas Senator Kel Seliger has testified under oath that the gerrymandered maps drawn by his party blatantly violate the Voting Rights Act.
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This is nuts. Nicole Harper was pulled over by an Arkansas state trooper. She pulled to the side, turned on her hazards, and looked for an exit. He waited 20 seconds and then used a PIT maneuver to flip her car. She was pregnant.
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Keep your eyes on Texas, y’all. The state just announced that 16M Texans are registered to vote. In the last 20 days alone, 284K people registered—that’s more than 14K new registrations per day. These aren’t even final numbers.
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Earlier this week @JohnFetterman said Dr. Oz was a Simpson’s character. Then he did this last night.
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Never forget.
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Right now, @AOC is speaking from the House floor about @RepTedYoho ’s comments. “When you do that to any woman, what Mr. Yoho did was give permission to other men to do that to his daughters.”
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Four Black men have been found hanging from trees since George Floyd’s death. All ruled suicides by police. Why hasn’t the DOJ/FBI launched an investigation yet?
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I just looked it up: In 2020, @GregAbbott_TX took more than $180,000 from oil, gas, and energy companies—and he wasn’t a candidate. Ted Cruz, John Cornyn, and Dan Crenshaw took more than $1.1M. They lined their pockets and left Texans vulnerable to this disaster.
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Kyrsten Sinema has received more than $500,000 from the pharmaceutical industry since taking office. I wonder why she has a problem supporting drug pricing reform.
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Wow. This is the moment when police kept Uvalde officer Ruben Ruiz, gun in-hand, from storming the classroom where his wife had been shot. (Via @davenewworld_2 ) “She said she’s shot!”
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Hannity: one of the things I am seeing, and I like seeing, is more diversity in the Republican Party *Camera pans to room full of old white people* (via @atrupar )
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Ted Cruz said it wouldn’t be a red wave—it would be a “Red Tsunami.” He also spent weeks on a bus tour (for his own 2024 bid) campaigning for 8 candidates. All eight of them lost.
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Holy shit. The Texas Senate just passed a bill to give Greg Abbott’s handpicked Sec. of State the power to overturn elections in the 3rd biggest county in the U.S. Republicans weaponizing 2020 election lies to rig elections. This is a HUGE story.
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Man, @PressSec came with the damn receipts for Doocy’s bad faith question.
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Yesterday Ron Desantis paid a private company nearly $1,000,000 in taxpayer money to fly an empty plane to New Jersey for a stunt to deceive the press. That company has donated tens of thousands to the Florida Republican Party.
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Collins and Murkowski voted for a filibuster carve-out five months ago. The entire Democratic Party should be pointing out that they have the power to nullify this decision right now by codifying Roe with a filibuster carve-out.
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This Tik Tok video roasting Greg Abbott has 4 million views
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Black maintenance staff, who were likely forced to hide during insurrection, are cleaning up the mess of a white mob that hung a noose outside the Capitol.
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Republicans in North Carolina just nominated a man for governor who: -is a literal Holocaust denier -said gays are “the end of civilization” -called school shooting victims “prosti-tots” -said shootings are “karma” for abortion -called civil rights movement a “communist plot”
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Holy shit. This is the guy who Greg Abbott has promised to pardon for murder. This is ONE PAGE of the 76 just released. Here, Daniel Perry says “I will only shoot the [protestors] in front and push the pedal to the metal.”
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Wow. Eva Mireles, a Uvalde teacher, called her husband and told him she had been shot and was dying. Her husband, a police officer, tried to take down the shooter but was detained by other officers and had his gun taken away.
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When your consultants watched a lot of game footage
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While campaigning in Iowa, @JulianCastro says: “We can't say to black women “oh thank you, you are the ones empowering our victories,” and then turn around and start our nominating contests in two states that have barely any black people in them."
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Since taking office, Kyrsten Sinema has voted twice for measures with filibuster carve-outs—to raise the debt ceiling and confirm a Supreme Court justice. Why wouldn’t she do it to pass the bill to codify Roe—a bill she cosponsors?
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Clarence Thomas disclosed $1,200 in free car tires he received in 2002. But he didn’t disclose: - half a million dollar vacations - trips on private jets, yachts - a billionaire buying his mother’s home - $150,000 in tuition payments for his adoptive son
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Texas Republican Rep. Bryan Slaton—aged 45, married, and a former youth minister—invited a Capitol intern under 21 years old to his apartment to drink and have sex. Slaton has led the “anti-groomer” crusade for Texas Republicans.
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Shoutout to the Dem leaders who endorsed Henry Cuellar, who's currently winning by 281 votes. He was one of three Dems who voted against banning high-capacity magazines yesterday. His district is 80 miles from Uvalde.
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Absolutely crazy. Today the Texas Senate passed a bill to force every public school classroom in the state to prominently display a copy of the Ten Commandments. They also passed a bill to set prayer and bible reading times during the school day.
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Today the city of Tucson—Kyrsten Sinema’s hometown—approved a $15 minimum wage by a 2-to-1 margin. She voted against it earlier this year.
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How it started: How it’s going:
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17 of the Republicans who just used the filibuster to block the John Lewis Voting Rights Act voted to reauthorize the law in 2006. In fact, it was passed 98-0. Today zero Republicans voted for it.
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy just launched an impeachment inquiry into President Biden WITHOUT a vote in the House. This tweet is still up on his account.
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Fauci doesn’t work, and has never worked, at the CDC.
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Senator Cruz says Fauci has hurt the credibility of the CDC
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Elizabeth Warren spent debate day marching with union members, rolling out a small business plan, and getting sued by racist murderer George Zimmerman. That’s what kind of president she would be.
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It’s going to be difficult to build a coalition if it doesn’t include people who enjoyed watching Elizabeth Warren dance on SNL.
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